Hi,
I'm still interested in, why "alias" wouldn't be a native Perl 6 term?
I think, there are several reasons for "alias":
- in natural languages, synonims are very often - alias is a synonim
- in Perl 6, currently there's no way to create a reference to a
variable, _with the context of the variable_, too (binding just give
me possibility to bind a variable into another, but the new variable
won't be automatically have the same context, as the binded one)
Some new examples, maybe better than before:
sub kilobytes ($value:) is export {
return $value*1024;
}
alias kilobytes, kilobyte;
So both routines will be an exported one. You can use this code then:
say 1.kilobyte;
say 2.kilobytes;
Bye,
Andras
BÁRTHÁZI András wrote:
Larry,
You can always write a macro that does that.
[...] That won't work on a method name anyway unless you do it in the
dispatch class.
[...]
You'll have to write your own macro if you want to do that.
As I understood, you wrote down, how I can workaround it with macros,
and why it wouldn't work well. As I see, there's no a nice solution to
alias a method or a sub, even with macros.
But you didn't wrote, why are you against the 'alias'?
Bye,
Andras
